I am helping my son’s band build a light show that syncs to their backing tracks/click. He built the tracks in Logic Pro.

I’m trying to figure out which software we should invest our time and money in. We’ve demo’d SoundSwitch, Show Buddy, Dmxis, QLC+. SoundSwitch is the most intuitive (to me) but I’m not sure if there is a way to connect the shows you build with Logic. Obviously they want to have one laptop that triggers the tracks and lights.

We have a SoundSwitch USB to DMX adapter and an Enntec DMX USB Pro adapter.

We have eight Chauvet Intimidator Spot LED 250 moving head lights and two Chauvet GigBar 2 for this show.

Any thoughts or recommendations based on this info? What’s your favorite software for this situation? Appreciate any and all feedback!

Hello all, I’m looking to buy some cheaper par lights/bar lights along with one of those cheap 1 universe entecc nodes for some self promo projects. As far as I know the best software that supports the use of that node is magicq but I have never used it. I’m more familiar with MA and Avolites and I’m wondering how good it is compared to those especially in terms of time coding. Any insight would be appreciated, also if y’all have some favorite cheap dmx lights you use that would be awesome too. 🙏

I have a grid of lights and have set up the selection grid with all the lights placed properly. I've use MAtricks to select a square of them and I want to have the squares flash separately, if that makes sense. However when I change the phase to 0 thru 360 or something it only uses the X axis. How do I have the phaser affect the y-axis as well? Is this even the way to do it?

Hopefully that made sense.

Hello, I'd like to highlight a flat object in a precise rectilinear shape, similar to the photos. They used spotlights—how can I achieve this? There's an existing track lighting system with Edison Price LED accent lights and spotlights in the venue.

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I'm using an ETC Element light board for a school play. I already have all the show cues ready, but we just patched in a basement light, and now I need it to be at full during every cue except the last two. I could manually add it in Blind, but I imagine there's a faster way that I don't know yet.

Thanks!

Hey guys,

I got some pretty basic dimmers setup. When I move their Intensity setting through DMX I see their assigned values change accordingly in the different views. I also see their values being set accordingly in the Universes tab. They are properly setup and eveything is responding as I want.

My problem is that they won't light up in the Live View. Everything else is fine but in the Live View everything stays dark. Any ideas why this happens ?

Many thanks in advance

Hello! I have been programming lighting for my own band shows for a while and have been thinking about reaching out to other bands to help their shows.

The main thing I worry about is working with different lighting rigs at different venues.

Is there any advice or direction to material/courses that could help kick start my research into how to go from novice to intermediate/pro?

I understand it doesn’t happen overnight! Just not sure where to start as to make it a career. E.g. which consoles I should understand. Local lights/integrating into venue lights, best practices.

Thank you so much 🙏

Hello, I have some moving lights in a position where they will strike architecture at parts of their travel. Is there a way to limit the travel range of the light in EOS?

We are doing Hello Dolly for our musical this year and have 75ft of a marquee that we want to light up. What is the best cost effective lights that you have used to accomplish this. We have an etc element, not sure if you can pixel map on this board. Thanks in advance.

I got an offer to be the light technician for a music video shoot, but I'm not sure how much I should charge. Here are some infos about me and the shoot:

• I have now been a light technician for roughly two years at my local Theater/concert hall, where I did roughly 1-2 shows per week mostly on my own with a bit of training from my colleagues at the beginning, but I never learned it properly only learning by doing.

• The shoot will be on a Sunday and will probably last 8 hours.

• The location of the shoot will be my local Theater but it's not associated directly with it. My "client' is renting it so I'm working there externally.

• They want me to do a show similar to a classic concert on the stage for the shoot so moving lights, moving heads, clas, ParCans etc.

• I don't know the budget yet but I want to get in informed

Yeah that's it. I thought of 200-300€ but I'm really not sure because I'm not a trained light technician.

Thanks in advance.

So, I have a problem.

Today, I set up four Involight Trinity200LEDs. However, there are recurring issues. The gobo or color wheel changes unexpectedly, it sometimes creates a strange pan/tilt effect, and one of them detects incoming DMX signals but doesn’t respond to them.

A reset/factory reset makes no difference, and I couldn’t find anything unusual in the lamp’s internal settings.

I’ve heard of others having similar issues and wanted to know if there’s a fix. Could it be firmware or other problems? Everything is running through an MA2 OnPc Command Wing.

Hope someone has answers. Thanks in advance :))

Machine is one week old and running regular Chauvet cleaning liquid through

Hiii guys, I need help. I just started to learn lighting design a few months ago. And I recently got asked to do my first event. YAY!!!

It's a small scale school event with 6 robes and 1 mac700. I'm quite new to this and kinda unsure abt the appropriate way to come up with a rig plan for my fixtures.

Anyone have any suggestion? Any advice is much appreciated🙏 Thanks!

Any DIY fixes any of y’all out there know of? Shooting with a conventional S4 Leko so obviously don’t want to go starting fires or anything. Thanks in advance

I new to ma2 on pc and my dumb coworker just save a show overwriting mine, what I need is to assign the cue sequence to a fader so I can use the cues that I recorded. Makes sense? Sorry, English isn't my native language. Thank you

I am trying to clone some instances from Solaris Flares to some RGB LED fixtures. The Flares are in the 12 cell mode with the master cell. The RGB fixture is just a generic 3ch RGB per instance.

When I do the clone from all the instances of the Flare to the RGB cells, nothing happens. Fixture sheet/seq content shows no data. I see the sources are correct in the clone menu, and the destinations are correct as well. When I hit merge show, overwrite priority, nothing gets moved to my RGB fixtures.

Is this an MA3 cloning bug? Or am I missing something about the way 3 is cloning the instances of the Flare. I am in MA3 2.0.2.0 if that helps.

I've recently run into an issue with one of my Fuze Spots. When it's turned on, it will do its motor reset cycle but then lock itself in one position and won't respond to DMX even though, on the fixture, it's showing that it's receiving pan and tilt dmx. Rebooting, resetting, and changing patches haven't made any difference. I am not sure how to fix it, and I don't want to have to ship it to Elation for them to figure it out. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Hey! I'm currently an undergrad student, preparing to do a doctorate in an unrelated field. However, I'm considering doing theatre tech as a double major. How likely is it that I could get jobs or positions that I could do as a side gig, along with a full-time job in the future?

(I'm interested in doing more in this area, as I've done a lot in HS, but I'm not sure I want to make it my full-time career.)

Thanks for the help!

Edit: I am looking more at theatre stuff. Thank you for the replies so far, they've been super helpful.

Does anyone know of a software that uses a live camera input to identify and map LED pixels?

Here's what I want to accomplish:

- A long string of pixels is installed onstage (its my house in this case, but same thing). In this case, its a non-grid situation.
- I can manually map the pixels using Entec's ELM - that's great
- For a quicker setup OR a more complex arrangement, I'd like to automate this.

- A camera pointed at the stage, set to greyscale and stopped down pretty far.
- The camera's frame is similar to the total size of my pixel map (or related)
- The App turns on each pixel, one at a time. It uses the camera input to identify the position of that pixel and records its XY position in the map. Then advances to the next pixel. Rinse & repeat through all the available pixels.

- Then I'd take that pixel map into ELM.

Has anyone found an app for this?

I've started playing with using Ai to create a python script for this, but if I can pay someone to do it that'd be great and save me the weekend.

Thanks!

When submitting a lighting rig for a approval, is the load a dynamic or static load? The rig would be LED Lekos.

Currently I have laptop with ELC dmxLAN doing this task but I was wondering if anyone know of a standalone device I could record a stage look and able to play it back at the press of a button.

There are tons of devices that do this for a 1 or 2 DMX universes via 5-pin XLR, but I need one capable of sending to 12 Universes on sACN.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I bought a Christmas tree that has very white (almost a blue tone) pre-strung lights. Is there a way I could warm the color of the lights up without having them removed or replaced? Something I could paint on the bulbs or add to them? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks!

Looking for someone who could help me out, I’m trying to setup some shehds 7r movers with a wolfmix wmx1. I’ve tried some fixture profiles from wtools but they don’t seem to completely work, colors are correct and pan and till seem to be but the orientation of the beam is incorrect, the prisms are not working, gobo rotation is not working either.

Also sorry if I am using the wrong terms, I am completely new to dmx and the wolfmix. What I’ve managed to figure out so far is thanks to YouTube! Any help is appreciated

Recently I've seen some videos of showcockpit being used for MagicQ PC. I was wondering if this bypassed chamsys' first 10 playback fader limit with there midi support (unlocked). The YouTube videos map way more then 10 playback butting to midi. 🤷

I’m running spotlight for a ballet and I’m working on a particularly old spotlight, a 1979 Strong Xenon Super Trooper, one of the first things i noticed is this knob on the ballast, i have scoured the internet and asked everyone who works in this theatre and i cannot find anything on what this knob possibly does. Anyone have any insight?